The yMusic album “Balance Problems” is out, and contains the piece I wrote for them last year, Safe Travels.

The album is a little differ­ent from your typical composer-compi­la­tion, which is a good thing. I’d say it’s more of an inter­pre­tive album, albeit of music that all happens to have been written for the group. But it’s not weighed down trying to be the defin­i­tive version of any of these pieces, a burden which can some­times lead to dutiful, bland record­ings. This is largely a factor of the sheen of futur­is­tic studio produc­tion provided by Ryan Lott (a.k.a Son Lux). 

It also helps that the music is so good and varied throughout—I’m chuffed to be sharing space with Marcos Balter, Andrew Norman, Mark Dancigers, Nico Muhly, Sufjan Stevens, and Jeremy Turner. 

And yes, if it wasn’t already evident, we live in the age of the Insta­gram Album Cover.

yMusic plays live in NYC on Oct. 10, at Rockwood Music Hall.